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| I've been kind of busy almost four months married. It's been great! We are getting used to being married. Ministry is going well, I am now working with the children's ministry as well as the adolescents, I'm still doing discipling and invovled in our young adults group. We are starting a married's group, and I wasn't planning on working so much. But that's the way it goes. I have people send me brownie mixes, my parents just sent me some. Love them! But I decided to share the wealth with others. For a couple of weeks now we've been trying to reach out to a young guy who is on his death bed, from cancer. He's 26. Luis and I decided one day to make him some brownies and that would be our way in. They are neighbors of ours he's had cancer for a little more than a year. I hate this but it just occurred to us within the last month to see about him. His family knew Luis of course, everyone knows Luis hehe, he's really outgoing and all the neighbors love him and they all know me too, 'the gringa' I'm trying to change that, hoping they'll see me as more than white and money but you know. God's working it out. So we took him brownies, he's in the last stages and he can't eat hardly anything. But he ate those brownies, his mom told me later that the entire family enjoyed them and she was so thankful. So today we took him more, he's catholic and was confirmed a couple of weeks ago but we want to talk to him more about having a personal relationship with God. It's pretty sad,he says he's not in a lot of pain but he sleeps a lot and while we were there he fell asleep three times. When the mom walked us outside she cried and thanked us. A few months ago another church down the street tried to get in to visit him, but the family turned them away. God only knows why they let us in, I guess brownies helps too haha, who'd a thought my chocolate love would turn into something good. It's a little overwhelming but God knows what he's doing. Please pray for his family his name is Christian. Please pray for future plans for us too and for Luis' visa. THanks Love to all | | |
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| I am aunt again. I am a wife (by law). I am happy. I can not express to you my happiness. We aren't living as husband and wife yet, but I am so happy. We will have our church ceremony the 17th of March and my parents will be able to fly down here on the 13th. There will be a group here from the states so that Will be exciting. We have ten people that are going to be baptized and I am excited and happy. I am sad. I am hurt. These past six months I've been working side by side a Chilean man who was our main guy. This man was a great husband and a great father. At first we had some friction between when I first arrived here because he felt I should be a better missionary and he criticized me. in confrontation he changed his attitude and decided that he should give me a chance. In the end he became the biggest supporter of Luis and I. Then we were notified by his wife that things were not going good in their family life. I confronted him and he explained to me that his wife was the problem and I believed him. He cried to me about the fact that his wife accused him of having another woman and he wouldn't dare do that. He called and talked with Luis about everything and cried with him too. So we bathed this thing in prayer and we started encouraging her to change. We were convinced that she was the main problem. He decided to leave her and his family and the ministry around the time that Jack got back. We were half-way supportive of that because she was damaging him and his ministry maybe he needed time to escape from this woman who was obviously so crazy he just needed time away from her. I was convinced from the beginning that he did not have another woman. Even before he told me he didn't I believed that a man of God who was so judgemental about other men who had affairs would never cheat on his God that way. So everytime the wife came to me, I sent her packing telling her to trust her husband and God, to forget about everything and get her life right. In my mind I was telling this crazy woman to stop obsessing and leave her man be. For weeks now we've been encouraging her and him, praying with them both believing and hoping for a miracle. The wife would come to us with little stories about how she was sure that he did have another woman. Keep in mind that she did seem insane, she wasn't stable, and from our experience with her and what he said. We knew that she was crazy. One day last week she came to us frantic, panicky, saying that she had called a numberthat appeared on her phone bill , her husband saying that it was a taxi he'd called at four in the morning mind you. This number appeared five times in a row which was very suspicious so she called it. A man answered the phone and said for sure that he knew the husband and that he was living there with his daughter. She came to us with that story and wanted us to call this number. At first we were like ok, let us see what we are going to do, we'll call you just go on downstairs and we'll let you know. So we called unbelieving, trusting in this man, who'd poured his heart out before us that it was another one of her crazy stories. And it was true. He's been living with another woman for a month now, we were pretty shocked and disbelieving still until, Jack and Janine went to the house of this woman and found out it was TRUE! The truth is supposed to be freeing and maybe in some sense it is because now this wife, know's she wasn't crazy, but for everyone else it sucks. Most everyone is affected, for some reason I'm not affected like everyone else. To me it doesn't go as deep. I don't know why but I'm not as sad as everyone else. Maybe for the first time in my life, I'm experiencing real Christ-like love. There was one day I felt pretty bad about the whole thing, but my husband and i called him on the phone. He's not been nice and he ran away from work the day we found out about it and then has been really hateful to everyone. A completely different man. So I assumed he wouldn't answer the phone. He did and Luis told him that we missed him, that we loved him and we'd be praying that he'd come back to God. He passed the phone to me and I told him that I loved him, I wasn't going to judge him, he was wrong and he knew it but that I loved him. He said to me I'm sorry Katie, please forgive me. He asked about my wedding and said he loved us too and that was it. How did it get this far? I know the answer, he's a man, who let Satan in just that one time, one little time. And then from there on there wasn't any going back. Maybe he was so judgemental of everyone because he had sin in his life. I don't know. And sometimes when we are so sure of ourselves, God has to take us down so we can humbly serve him. I understand God would never have this in his plan but he is gonna use it of that I am sure. It's sad yes, for everyone, but we can't turn our backs on this guy, he helped so many people before. The love of Christ is not like that. I know that it's going to be a long road. But I look at David and I remember that God's love is for everyone. Men fall and they rise, but God uses us all the same. So I'm sad but I know that God is working and the enemy is angry, he's astute and will do and use whoever will let him in. Please pray for this family, there is more then just husband and wife involved here. There are kids. It's gonna take a lot for them to forgive their father. Please pray for forgiveness in their hearts and that God would work in this man's life. | | |
| I had to postpone my church ceremony wedding for two weeks more because my dad had some health issues and wasn't able to fly down here. But he's much better now and was given the go ahead to fly. So we are still having our civil ceremony this friday so we still will be married lawfully but not by the church, we changed the date to March 17th. So anyway thanks for all the prayers and keep praying for my dad. Thanks | | |
| THe long awaited details. Christmas Eve we spent together Luis and I with a "special" friend named Marcelo, i say special not as in he is our special friend like close but in the way of him being special and needing lots of love. He is a drug addict gone through rehabilitation occasionaly falls. He is a part of our young adult group we have started and he is also single without family. So we decided that we'd share with him and another woman who had no one to share with. The woman if I can say this without sounding mean, is the worse person you can think of to share a holiday with. She is a new Christian, I believe she is heavily influenced by Satan. I have seriously never met someone as lonely as she. But she can't for the life of her figure out why no one wants to be with her. She is a very dishonest person and will spend time with anyone whether she likes them or not all the while when their backs are turned she will talk about them as if she hated them. I can't imagine a life like that. Anyway she had attempted to help Marcelo awhile back, they had a falling out and she ignored him the entire evening. It made for a very uncomfortable evening. She also has something against Luis and I, because of personal reasons which I won't share because they don't really matter, We escaped as fast as we could. Her house is dark, and dirty. Blasted woman. So escaping from the dungeon we made our way to one of our adolescents house who is like a daughter, sister, friend to Luis and I she's great! we picked her up and we went to another house to spend some time until 3 am there we dropped of Noemi and sat in my car while Luis and I exchanged gifts. We had argued before we went to the woman's house so we discussed what we needed to discuss. We talked for awhile and then Luis asked me to massage his feet, so I did. I love doing that for him because he stands on his feet all day long doing construction stuff. I should have caught on there that something was different because he never asks me to massage his feet. Anyway we talked for an hour more and then he asked me to massage not just his foot but his leg, ok I said. That was when I felt it, the box, he told me that he was not going to give me a ring for Christmas and he had already given me a box with a tiny spider in it. Anyway he had hidden the ring box in his sock so when I masseged his leg I'd find it, I don't know how he waited as long as he did, he's kind of an anxious person. So I found it and cried and laughed as he proposed to me and we prayed together. IT was heavenly. It was really funny, its kind of hard to explain it on this thing but it was really funny. March 2nd is our civil ceremony March 3rd is our church ceremony, Why so fast you ask, it's really not that fast at all we've been planning since we were dating to get married we just didn't know when and we needed the right timing. So now is right. We need lots of prayers especially me, We have less then two months to plan everything, Help. No, it's all good, its typical me though, last minute. They don't elope here, otherwise we would be announcing our marriage instead of engagement. Oh and those of you who've planned weddins before I can use some help, and you can make donations to us as well. Hehe. Thanks no really I need your prayers For those of you who know any culture besides ozarks it's really not that common that people get married after a year of dating, so we've received lots of comments as to why its "so fast" all of them you can imagine and there isn't really any other reason but that we love each other and we just want to be together and serve God together. That's all! | | |
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